| Owner: |
Katherine Merriweather
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| Owner Email: |
katy.merriweather@gmail.com
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| Paper Title: |
Gatekeeping in Educational Administration Hiring Decisions: A Resume Audit Study
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| Session Title: |
Examining and Enhancing the Leadership Pipeline
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| Paper Type: |
Paper
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| Presentation Date: |
4/10/2021
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| Presentation Location: |
Virtual
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| Descriptors: |
Administration, Gender Studies, Leadership
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| Methodology: |
Quantitative
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| Author(s): |
Katherine Merriweather, Austin Community College
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| Unit: |
Division A - Administration
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| Abstract: |
This study examines gatekeeping in educational administration hiring decisions. The researcher conducted a resume audit study with educational administrators from Kansas to understand gender biases in hiring decisions for administrative roles. This study found evidence of gatekeeping that favored men from subjective evaluation of candidate hireability based on resume name when controlling for resume contents. These findings suggest gatekeeping is occurring in educational administration hiring decisions which contributes to gender stratification for valued executive-level careers in education. These findings set the stage for future research to more comprehensively study access to educational administration.
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| DOI: |
https://doi.org/10.3102/1692560
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